Mt Lofty Botanical Gardens – James Allan

Autumn Leaves -James Allan

On May 17th the club had an excursion to the Mt Lofty Botanical Gardens.  The freeway was blocked in the morning and some members had some difficulty finding the bottom car park.  But it was worth the effort.  Jen commented – all the big guns were out.  I guess she was referring to herself, Graham, Howard, Chris, Ashley and myself.  We were equiped with an image list to guide us, a bare tree, a single leaf, a fungus, an autumn landscape, people, bark, water and so on.  Well it was a glorious day with blue skies and full sun.  I have included images from those who were able to attend.

Leaf – James Allan

Leaf – Cris Schultz

It was interesting to see that Chris and I took a similar leaf  from different angles.  Graham found a poor swan with it’s head under it’s wing, waiting for the photographers to go away so that it could sleep. I was given several landscape photos and Panoramas.

Swan – head under it’s wing, waiting for the photographers to go away – Graham Field

Panorama – Chris Schultz

Autumn – Jamnes Allan

Landscape – Graham Field

Reflections – Graham Field

Here are more of our photographers, the so called big guns; Graham, Jen on her tummy photographing mushrooms and Ashley the one under the sheet.

Graham Field

Jen Williams

Ashley Hoff

Here are the Mushroom Photos:

Orange Fungus – James Allan

Red-cap (Amanita muscaria) – Jen

Howard Shultze borrowed my monopod and managed to get some good angles on the sculpture and the spillway for the dam.

Spillway – Howard Shultze

Sculpture – Howard Shultze

Tree Branch – Chris Schultz

It was a good outing and certainly one worth repeating.  Thanks to those attending.

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